(Agent 47: Tsk.  Should’ve stuck to games)

Usually, video games that are made movies (and vice versa) turn out bad.

Hitman is no exception.

According to Rotten Tomatoes, the movie site version of Gamespot, things don’t look really well with what the critics have to say.

Some words from veteran reviewers:

From Terry Lawson of the Detroit Free Press: “While Hitman is decidedly more watchable than Resident Evil and most previous video-game movies, it shares its forerunners’ lack of interest in storytelling or logic.”

From Brian Orndorf of Efilmcritic.com: “An overcooked time killer that finds bad acting, bad direction, bad cinematography, and bad screenwriting in a furious race to dominate the running time. I’d call it a four-way tie.”

From Kirk Honeycutt of Hollywoord Reporter: “The formula is not that far removed from James Bond except there’s a hole at its center. Agent 47, played by a virtually expressionless Timothy Olyphant, is a soulless, emotionally dead protagonist.”

From Jack Mathews of New York Daily News: “As cold as it is dumb.”

Overall ratings from Rotten Tomatoes look really bad. Only 6 out of the 48 noted critics gave it a fresh rating and as a whole, the site gave it a 3.7 out of 10.

W-h J: Aliens v.s Predator the movie, Spiderman 2 game, Transformers The Game, Street Fighter the movie, Street Fighter the game, Harry Potter gamess, Doom the movie, Tomb Raider the movie, Batman Begins the game, and the list goes on…When will they ever learn how Mortal Kombat pulled these things right?

(Sources: Gaming Today, Rotten Tomatoes)

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